Blackberry BIS 2.0 Features
 

Hi all,

I have a good friend who just purchased a blackberry for herself from Verizon and asked me to set it up ( I also have a blackberry from T-Mobile issued through work on a BES so, things are a bit different).

After looking through the documentation at RIM's Blackberry website, I noticed that the document makes mention of real-time email delivery with BIS(it does not say exactly what is required on the email admin's end other than IMAP) which I understood to be impossible.

RIM's BIS 2.0 Documentation Check out the section entitled Automatic Message Delivery: Polling and Real-time to see what I am talking about.

Does anybody here know anything more about the real-time option in BIS 2.0 and what has to be enabled server side for it to work?

Thanks,
Dan

BIS has always been realtime, on the Blackberry email address at least. What was not realtime was POP polling.

When T-mobile introduced a yahoo email connection within the BIS it also became realtime. I always just forwarded my emails to my @blackberry account and received them in seconds.

From the documentation on RIM's Website here

Real-time based delivery

1. A new email message arrives in the subscriber's email account from the internet.
2. The account notifies the BlackBerry Internet Service that a new email message has arrived
3. The Blackberry Internet Service download the email message.
4. The Blackberry Internet Service sends the message to the subscriber's BlackBerry device or Blackberry -enabled device over a wireless network.
5. The aporximate delivery is in seconds.

This sounds new to me and different from simply fowarding the email from her account which was my first thought.

Dan

That's how Yahoo works with TMO's BIS service. With Gmail I still have to forward.